The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris,
Reared under Laboratory Conditions

J 2020

The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions

DOBEŠ, Pavel, Martin KUNC, Jana HURYCHOVÁ, Alena VOTAVOVÁ, Olga KOMZÁKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions

Authors

DOBEŠ, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin KUNC (203 Czech Republic), Jana HURYCHOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Alena VOTAVOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Olga KOMZÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Pavel HYRŠL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Insects, Basel, MDPI, 2020, 2075-4450

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10616 Entomology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.769

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114827

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11050321

UT WoS

000541085300047

Keywords (in Czech)

Bombus terrestris; čmelák; opylování; živiny; imunita; laboratorní chov

Keywords in English

Bombus terrestris; bumble bee; foraging; pollination; nutrients; immunity; laboratory rearing

Abstract

V originále

Bumble bees are important pollinators broadly used by farmers in greenhouses and under conditions in which honeybee pollination is limited. As such, bumble bees are increasingly being reared for commercial purposes, which brings into question whether individuals reared under laboratory conditions are fully capable of physiological adaptation to field conditions. To understand the changes in bumble bee organism caused by foraging, we compared the fundamental physiological and immunological parameters of Bombus terrestris workers reared under constant optimal laboratory conditions with workers from sister colonies that were allowed to forage for two weeks in the field. Nutritional status and immune response were further determined in wild foragers of B. terrestris that lived under the constant influence of natural stressors. Both wild and laboratory-reared workers subjected to the field conditions had a lower protein concentration in the hemolymph and increased antimicrobial activity, the detection of which was limited in the non-foragers. However, in most of the tested parameters, specifically the level of carbohydrates, antioxidants, total hemocyte concentration in the hemolymph and melanization response, we did not observe any significant differences between bumble bee workers produced in the laboratory and wild animals, nor between foragers and non-foragers. Our results show that bumble bees reared under laboratory conditions can mount a sufficient immune response to potential pathogens and cope with differential food availability in the field, similarly to the wild bumble bee workers.

Links

QK1910286, research and development project

Name: Efektivní postupy a strategie pro zvládání včelích chorob a udržitelný chov včelstev

Investor: Ministry of Agriculture of the CR

Citovat

DOBEŠ, Pavel, Martin KUNC, Jana HURYCHOVÁ, Alena VOTAVOVÁ, Olga KOMZÁKOVÁ and Pavel HYRŠL. The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions. Insects. Basel: MDPI, 2020, vol. 11, No 5, p. 1-15. ISSN 2075-4450. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11050321.

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DOBEŠ, Pavel, Martin KUNC, Jana HURYCHOVÁ, Alena VOTAVOVÁ, Olga KOMZÁKOVÁ and Pavel HYRŠL. The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions. \textit{Insects}. Basel: MDPI, 2020, vol.~11, No~5, p.~1-15. ISSN~2075-4450. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11050321.

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